Enchanted Beneath the Bluff - Agnes and Geraldine's Pursuit of Elwood's Elusive Black Diamonds by Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather Andrea Arnold
40.00 AUD
Category: Australian History
Within a place of love, sorrow and salvation, where Elwood’s Swamp met St Kilda’s Red Bluff, two ardent women, Agnes Simmons and Geraldine Minet, challenged providence and geology. In the days of Suffrage and Spiritualism, these two daring Theosophists sought to bring prosperity to Colonial Victoria o ...Show more
Badly Behaved Women: The History of Modern Feminism by Anna-Marie Crowhurst
19.99 AUD
39.99 (50% off)
Category: Sociology
Badly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyoncé, body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication and fearless campaigning, the women's movement ac ...Show more
Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Time Tamed by Nicholas Foulkes
29.99 AUD
55.00 (45% off)
Category: History
For more than 25,000 years, mankind has sought to understand and measure the passing of time, in the process creating some of the most remarkable and beautiful timepieces. Now, in Nicholas Foulkes's lavishly illustrated book, the battle to tame time is brought vividly to life.From the baboon bone dating ...Show more
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson
29.99 AUD
59.99 (50% off)
Category: History
We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and what really sets it apart? Journalist and historian Peter Wa ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Women Don't Owe You Pretty tells you to love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find co ...Show more
Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe, Vicky Shukuroglou
29.99 AUD
49.99 (40% off)
Category: Travel
Loving Country is a book that inspires ultimate respect for Mother Earth and the role of her custodians. While readers are encouraged to discover the sacred country of Australia in an open-minded and sensitive manner, the intention of this book is to foster communication and understanding between all pe ...Show more
Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
9.99 AUD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: History
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live, the first post-pandemic book to take our latest measurements and provide something fresh to comfort, embolden, enlighten and enrich who we are today' LISA TADDEO Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called 'deadly sins', conse ...Show more